Edith B. Siegrist Vermillion Public Library

Award-Winning Books:

Want to keep reading, but don’t know where to start? Checking out award-winning books is a great way to find book recommendations. Click on the images below to find an extensive list of top-rated titles in many different genres – explore the links to find out about the awards themselves, along with the lists of winners. This should keep your reading list full for quite a while!

The Bram Stoker Award is presented annually by the for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing.

The Caldecott Medal is presented annually and recognizes the "most distinguished American picture book for children".

The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements, given at the World Science Fiction Convention.

Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

The Michael L. Printz Award is a literary award that recognizes the "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit".

The National Book Award celebrates the best literature in America and ensures that books have a prominent place in American culture.

The National Book Critics Circle awards the finest books published in six different categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism.

The Newbery Award is given each year to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

The Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction".

Prairie Bud, Prairie Bloom, and Prairie Pasque award winners are determined by South Dakota students aged PreK to fifth grade. The books receiving the highest number of stars from the students win the awards.

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States.

The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is given to author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers.

The Young Adult Reading Program Committee of the South Dakota Library Association publishes a list of quality literature to help South Dakota teachers and librarians in selecting and promoting books for adolescents.